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René Laennec

1781 - 1826

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René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (French: [laɛnɛk]; 17 February 1781 – 13 August 1826) was a French physician and musician. His skill at carving his own wooden flutes led him to invent the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Laennec has received more than 1,371,213 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). René Laennec is the 54th most popular physician (up from 59th in 2019), the 552nd most popular biography from France (down from 548th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Physician.

René Laennec is most famous for inventing the stethoscope.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, René Laennec ranks 54 out of 726. Before him are Hilary of Poitiers, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Franz Mesmer, Eugen Bleuler, Herbert Spencer Gasser, and Robert Bellarmine. After him are Djer, Philippe Pinel, Gerhard Domagk, Emil Theodor Kocher, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Karl Brandt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, René Laennec ranks 6. Before him are Eugène de Beauharnais, George Stephenson, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Bernard Bolzano, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. After him are Siméon Denis Poisson, Stamford Raffles, Adelbert von Chamisso, William I of Württemberg, Anton Diabelli, and Achim von Arnim. Among people deceased in 1826, René Laennec ranks 7. Before him are Thomas Jefferson, Carl Maria von Weber, John Adams, Giuseppe Piazzi, John VI of Portugal, and Joseph von Fraunhofer. After him are Philippe Pinel, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Joseph Proust, Stamford Raffles, Elizabeth Alexeievna, and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Laennec ranks 552 out of 6,770. Before him are Étienne de La Boétie (1530), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Michel Piccoli (1925), Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Éric Rohmer (1920), and Jules Michelet (1798). After him are France Gall (1947), Gustave Caillebotte (1848), Louise de La Vallière (1644), Maurice Utrillo (1883), Rashi (1040), and Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, René Laennec ranks 9. Before him are Claude Bernard (1813), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), Alexis Carrel (1873), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), Ambroise Paré (1510), and Hilary of Poitiers (315). After him are Philippe Pinel (1745), Karl Brandt (1904), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Charles Nicolle (1866), Jean Nicot (1530), and André Frédéric Cournand (1895).

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